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Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant : anagram, anagram, software, anagramme, anagrama, wordplay, word play, anagram creator, anagram solver, anagram finder, anagram generator, anagram maker, anagram unscrambler, anagram machine, crossword, transmogrify, pangram, shuffle

Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant : anagram, anagram, software, anagramme, anagrama, wordplay, word play, anagram creator, anagram solver, anagram finder, anagram generator, anagram maker, anagram unscrambler, anagram machine, crossword, transmogrify, pangram, shuffle: "Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, 'All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.' Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams."

Tolkien Reading Day - The Tolkien Society

Tolkien Reading Day - The Tolkien Society: "That enquiry was sent to the Tolkien Society in January 2002. The then committee liked the idea and after a certain amount of discussion picked March 25th as “Tolkien Reading Day”. The rest, as they say, is history!"

DVD | Brain Rules |

DVD | Brain Rules |: "Welcome paper back readers

Watch the DVD as an introduction to the book"

Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq

Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq: "Using Balsamiq Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting."

AIRSHIP > Feature Films

AIRSHIP > Feature Films: "Feature Films"

Mastering Oracle SQL: Chapter 7: Set Operations

Mastering Oracle SQL: Chapter 7: Set Operations: "As we can see the CUSTOMER_KNOWN_GOOD and CUSTOMER_TEST tables have the same structure, but different data. Also notice that none of these tables has a primary or unique key; there are duplicate records in both. The following SQL will compare these two tables effectively:

(SELECT C1.*, COUNT(*)
FROM CUSTOMER_KNOWN_GOOD C1
GROUP BY C1.CUST_NBR, C1.NAME
MINUS
SELECT C2.*, COUNT(*)
FROM CUSTOMER_TEST C2
GROUP BY C2.CUST_NBR, C2.NAME)
UNION ALL
(SELECT C3.*, COUNT(*)
FROM CUSTOMER_TEST C3
GROUP BY C3.CUST_NBR, C3.NAME
MINUS
SELECT C4.*, COUNT(*)
FROM CUSTOMER_KNOWN_GOOD C4
GROUP BY C4.CUST_NBR, C4.NAME);

CUST_NBR NAME COUNT(*)
----------- ------------------------------ ----------
2 Samsung 1
3 Panasonic 3
2 Samsung 2
3 Panasonic 1"

Oracle PL/SQL Code Library and Resources

Oracle PL/SQL Code Library and Resources:
"(Formerly known as 'Morgan's Library)"

TigerMikeMemos - very funny

TigerMikeMemos - very funny: "Described as 'real man memos,' these inter-office communications from Tiger Oil Company owner Edward Mike Davis are a hoot!"

Ora_Tweet - Tweet From Oracle, A PL/SQL Twitter API | Database Geek Blog

Ora_Tweet - Tweet From Oracle, A PL/SQL Twitter API | Database Geek Blog: "I decided to put together a twitter procedure that would let me make posts from the database."

A/V Geeks � Our Films Online

A/V Geeks � Our Films Online: "Our Films Online"

List Table Names, Rows, and Created Date

List Table Names, Rows, and Created Date:

"for t in (select object_name, created from user_objects where object_type='TABLE') loop"

THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA

THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA: "With this blog, i want to use the Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore american folk music and maybe other countries traditions along the way."

Glasshouse injects 3D representation of data into a virtual world | CyberTech News

Glasshouse injects 3D representation of data into a virtual world | CyberTech News: "Green Phosphor’s product is called Glasshouse, and it is a gateway which can take a database query or a spreadsheet and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world. Users can see data, and drill into it; re-sort it; explore it interactively - all from within a virtual world. Glasshouse produces graphs which are avatars of the data itself."

My Life With Cables - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com

My Life With Cables - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com: "My desk is far from organized, but the mess on top pales compared to the chaos lurking below. I just did a quick inventory and counted a staggering 31 cables running riot down there."

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable � Clay Shirky

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable � Clay Shirky: "The hard question Eisenstein’s book asks is “How did we get from the world before the printing press to the world after it? What was the revolution itself like?”

Chaotic, as it turns out. The Bible was translated into local languages; was this an educational boon or the work of the devil? Erotic novels appeared, prompting the same set of questions. Copies of Aristotle and Galen circulated widely, but direct encounter with the relevant texts revealed that the two sources clashed, tarnishing faith in the Ancients. As novelty spread, old institutions seemed exhausted while new ones seemed untrustworthy; as a result, people almost literally didn’t know what to think. If you can’t trust Aristotle, who can you trust?"

Mark's Famous Dry Rub

1/4 c kosher salt
3 T cumin
3 T paprika
2 T black pepper
2 T chili powder
1 T garlic powder
1 T celery salt
1 T dry mustard
1 t cayenne

good for 8 lb pork shoulder.
reserve 3 T to sprinkle on finished meat.

Ask Tom "how to get around Dbms_output limitation..."

Ask Tom "how to get around Dbms_output limitation...":

tkyte@ORA734.WORLD> create or replace package my_dbms_output
 2  as
 3      procedure put( s in varchar2 );
 4      procedure put_line( s in varchar2 );
 5      procedure new_line;
 6 
 6      function get_line( n in number ) return varchar2;
 7      pragma restrict_references( get_line, wnds, rnds );
 8 
 8      function get_line_count return number;
 9      pragma restrict_references( get_line_count, wnds, rnds, wnps );
10 
10      pragma restrict_references( my_dbms_output, wnds, rnds, wnps, rnps );
11  end;
12  /

Dockers Custom Fit Khaki - Pleated

Dockers Store Online - Men:
"Custom Fit Khaki - Pleated
Style #40570"

Welcome to CoinOpVideogames.com - Classic Arcade Sounds

Welcome to CoinOpVideogames.com - Classic Arcade Sounds: "Experience the magic and the wonder of the early years of coin-op video games. Hear the classic arcade ambience like you haven't heard it in over a quarter of a century! The blend of several video games being played simultaneously, the kids yelling and the quarters clanking. We will never hear such beautiful chaos quite the same way again...."

Problem getting a "clean break?"

Problem getting a "clean break?": "With a basic cheese, the step which most often presents difficulties is the ability to achieve a clean break. Test for a clean break by plunging a clean finger into the inoculated & renneted milk and lifting. Properly coagulated milk should break cleanly around the finger, and clear whey should fill the gaps produced:"

Cheese -- G. K. Chesterton

Cheese: "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

TripAtlas.com - About Woot

TripAtlas.com - About Woot: "'Ferdinand Magellan, the Circumnavigator, He crossed the danged Meridians, He crossed the danged Equator...'"

The Pac-Man Dossier

The Pac-Man Dossier: "Welcome to The Pac-Man Dossier! This web page is dedicated to providing Pac-Man players of all skill levels with the most complete and detailed study of the game possible. New discoveries found during the research for this page in December 2008 have allowed for the clearest view yet of the actual ghost behavior and pathfinding logic used by the game."

URBAN CAMOUFLAGE

URBAN CAMOUFLAGE

old timbers from china

大量供应老榆木梁-中国建材网
old timbers for sale, reclaimed from farmhouses.

Cult of Done Manifesto: a name for my disease - Boing Boing

Cult of Done Manifesto: a name for my disease - Boing Boing:
"1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more."

Oracle VVWare Appliance

Bert Scalzo's Software: "This VMware appliance includes Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.6 (32-bit), Oracle Express Database 10g, Oracle Application Express, and SQL Developer. All the key Oracle freeware products are already setup and fully optimized for you. So learn the key Oracle database and application technology stack all within one self contained and fully optimized virtual machine - and all using fantastic yet simple Oracle freeware."

Hot Wieners Rhode Island Style Recipe : Guy Fieri : Food Network

Hot Wieners Rhode Island Style Recipe : Guy Fieri : Food Network: "Ingredients

* 4 tablespoons margarine
* 2 yellow onions, minced, divided
* 2 tablespoons chili powder
* 2 tablespoons paprika
* 1/2 teaspoon allspice
* 1/2 teaspoon curry
* 1 teaspoon dry mustard
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1 pound ground beef, 80/20
* 1/4 cup water
* 20 hot dogs
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 20 hot dog buns
* Yellow mustard
* 2 tablespoons celery salt"

An Opinionated Play-by-Play of the Plantinga-Dennett Exchange - The Prosblogion

An Opinionated Play-by-Play of the Plantinga-Dennett Exchange - The Prosblogion: "How important was such a meeting, and of what worth is discussion about it? Did Plantinga or Dennett take away anything new by way of argument or philosophy from the meeting? Probably not. Did anybody in the audience learn anything new by way of argument or philosophy? Maybe; perhaps some people there never heard some of Plantinga's arguments, and they learned something new.

So I'm not sure how important the meeting was from the standpoint of philosophy. But I'm interested in reading/hearing discussion about the meeting to get a better idea of how theism and atheism are perceived by the philosophical community. I'm curious to hear how atheists might have perceived what went on at the meeting."

Gamasutra - Building Quake Live: Carmack Speaks

Gamasutra - Building Quake Live: Carmack Speaks: "What really hurt us was the initial thought of putting a web interface on it. Some things surrounding the game were certainly overly trivialized by us. That's easy to do when you say, 'Oh, we're hotshot game developers. This web stuff can't be too hard because so many people do it.'

There's a little bit of a humbling lesson there in how much work we did have to do with all the things on browser compatibility and backend database integration and optimization."

Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars

Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars: "Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars."

Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Scientific American

Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Scientific American: "Three quarters of the caffeine we ingest comes from coffee. Try to limit yourself to fewer than 100 cups a day. That much coffee contains about 10 grams of caffeine, enough to cause fatal complications."

Applied Data Research | Software Memories

Applied Data Research | Software Memories: "ADR was an underappreciated powerhouse, boasting all of the Fortune 100 as customers way back in the early 1980s (yes, even archrival IBM)."

End User: The $400 Apple Netbook: How to Install OS X on a Dell Mini 9

End User: The $400 Apple Netbook: How to Install OS X on a Dell Mini 9: "The lads over at Gizmodo have a great hack for those looking for an OS X-powered netbook that isn't a pocketbook-piercing Macbook Air. It turns out that with a minimal bit of fiddling, you can take a Dell Mini 9 and install a perfectly working copy of Apple's OS X on it. (According to BoingBoing, several netbooks can support OS X to varying degrees, but the Dell Mini 9 has the best all-around support for an out-of-the-box install.)"

Head First SQL: Hands On

Head First SQL: Hands On: "Practice Your SQL Queries

Welcome to Hands-On SQL, where you can play around with the tables in Head First SQL."

Download details: XML Notepad 2007

Download details: XML Notepad 2007: "XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents."

SourceGear : DiffMerge

SourceGear : DiffMerge: "DiffMerge is an application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix."

Instapundit � Blog Archive � SOME ADVICE ON FUTURE “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS, from a media producer who attended the Overland Park aff…

Instapundit � Blog Archive � SOME ADVICE ON FUTURE “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS, from a media producer who attended the Overland Park aff…: "As a professional media producer, here are my concerns:"

Instapundit

Instapundit: "SOME ADVICE ON FUTURE “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS, from a media producer who attended the Overland Park affair:"

Resetting PowerBook and iBook Power Management Unit (PMU)

Resetting PowerBook and iBook Power Management Unit (PMU): "The Power Manager is an integrated circuit (computer chip) that is usually on the logic board of the PowerBook and iBook. As the name implies, it is responsible for power management of the computer. It controls backlighting, hard disk spin down, sleep and wake, some charging aspects, trackpad control, and some input/output as it relates to the computer sleeping.

Over time, the settings in the Power Manager may become unusable, which can result in operational anomalies with the computer. Examples include not turning on, not waking from sleep, not charging the battery, or not seeing the AC Adapter, among others."

How to Build a Water Rocket | Step-by-Step | Family Projects | This Old House - Introduction

How to Build a Water Rocket | Step-by-Step | Family Projects | This Old House - Introduction: "If you’ve ever dreamed about sending a rocket sky-high, you might be relieved to learn you don’t have to mess with explosives to make one fly. If you put air under pressure, like in a tire, you can use it to propel an object upwards. Add water to the mix, and your rocket will go far above the trees. This rocket is made from simple PVC plumbing pipe and some plastic soda bottles. It's easy to put together in an afternoon. As long as you always have an adult around, launching your rocket is safe and fun."

Study Shows Right Turn on Red Crashes are Rare

Study Shows Right Turn on Red Crashes are Rare: "Red light camera supporters insist that the devices are needed to prevent the common and deadly T-bone style of accident at intersections. In practice, however, automated ticketing lenses are more often positioned to photograph a different type of violation, one that rarely causes accidents. A review of US Department of Transportation statistics shows that an average motorist could drive a billion miles -- the distance from Earth to Jupiter and back -- before being involved in an accident that resulted from a motorist making a rolling stop on a right-hand turn."

Google

Google

3M Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N (Nuclear): Physical Properties

3M Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N (Nuclear): Physical Properties: "3M™ Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N (Nuclear Grade)
Strong grip and rugged cloth backing for indoor and outdoor applications…"

How to adjust eye glasses | Wonder How To

How to adjust eye glasses | Wonder How To: "How to adjust eye glasses"

Re: Availability of Junket Rennet Tablets

"Probably the best advise for most people would be to order it direct from us by calling 1-800-556-6674, Redco Direct Market. Regrettably at this time there is no web site for Junket."

philipkdickfans.com - "The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams (November 6, 1975)

philipkdickfans.com - "The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams (November 6, 1975): "A pivotal point in Phil Dick's career and his first taste of national publicity, this 6-page article speculates on the 1971 break-in of Philip K. Dick's apartment, among other things.

Written by his friend Paul Williams, this story is a snapshot of the period's cultural landscape as well as an in-depth investigation into Phil Dick's personal and professional life."

Hit & Run > "Milton Friedman Proud Father of Global Misery" - Reason Magazine

Hit & Run > "Milton Friedman Proud Father of Global Misery" - Reason Magazine: "For a definitive explanation of why Friedman deserves none of the hate or blame heaped on him by the likes of Sanders, Naomi Klein, and other leftists, see Johan Norberg's classic Reason feature 'Defaming Milton Friedman.' For a detailed account of Friedman's many accomplishments, see Brian Doherty's 'The Life and Times of Milton Friedman.' And for the last word, here's the man himself:"

The Illustrated Road to Serfdom

The Illustrated Road to Serfdom: "The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich A. Hayek"

Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie - Health & Family - Kentucky.com

Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie - Health & Family - Kentucky.com: "Kratzer's basement suggests that the great cultural influences wandered out of college humanities class — here a Churchill for eloquence during harsh times, a Joan Crawford for cinematic vampiness, Holmes and Poirot for great literary characterization — and set up shop together in the carefully hand-drawn markings of an educated imagination come to life."

Welcome to HomeWord

Welcome to HomeWord: "5 Tips for Loving Your Teenager"

Pixar's Approach to HR | Design & Innovation | Fast Company

Pixar's Approach to HR | Design & Innovation | Fast Company: "Mostly, it's about hiring ultra-nerds with good communication skills. To wit: You want people who have become exceptional at a tiny discipline, no matter how obscure or dorky, since it's that compulsion to truly master something that predicts how they'll handle a new task. (Wannabe Pixar employees: Don't bury your unicycle or juggling skills on your resume.) Another idea is looking for people who have failed and overcome—as Nelson puts it, 'The core skill of innovators is error recovery not failure avoidance,' which is key if you're asking someone to solve a never-before-solved problem. But perhaps the squishiest trait is the ability to make others around you better, through communication and camaraderie."

Presentation Zen: The "Lessig Method" of presentation

Presentation Zen: The "Lessig Method" of presentation: "The 'Lessig Method' of presentation is not an official method per se, but many people who know about the work of Stanford law professor, Lawrence Lessig, have been inspired by his presentation style and informally refer to his approach as something unique indeed."

CHARLES PLATT GOES UNDERCOVER AT WAL-MART - New York Post

CHARLES PLATT GOES UNDERCOVER AT WAL-MART - New York Post: "To my mind, the real scandal is not that a large corporation doesn't pay people more. The scandal is that so many people have so little economic value. Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?"

Digital Urban: Tutorial: Torch Webcam = HD Timelapse System

Digital Urban: Tutorial: Torch Webcam = HD Timelapse System: "Over the past few months we have been running views of the city created from a webcam mounted on our roof looking over the London skyline from Camden Town. The setup, although remarkably simple, is capable of capturing high definition timelapse movies at a fraction of the cost of off the shelf hardware.

Here at digital urban over the years we have got used to setting up capture systems that are low cost yet get the job done, and our timelapse system is hopefully no exception."

Blogs - Creating a minimalist Oracle 11g database

Blogs - Creating a minimalist Oracle 11g database: "Following my recommendations, you’ll end up with a 1GB database that requires just 600 MB of SGA memory – and that on my modest IBM X61 ultra-portable notebook created in just under 10 minutes. That’s far less resources than the defaults would create."

ammo: Arm Against the Keynesian Counter-Revolution

ammo: Arm Against the Keynesian Counter-Revolution: "A generation ago Keynesian economics was dead and buried, abandoned even by the most influential Keynesian economist of them all, John Hicks. It had been killed by the re-discovery of Hayek (by Robert Lucas , Alex Leijonhufvud, and John Hicks, among others), by Milton Friedman — and by stagflation. Keynesian economics was rejected by the great political figures of the time. By Thatcher and Reagan who looked to Hayek, not Keynes. And by the leaders of the states of the former Russian Empire, by the Chinese, and across the European continent, who again looked to Hayek (and Friedman), and not Keynes.

But today the free market and the ideas of Friedrich Hayek are under massive assault. The Keynesian are again in the saddle, riding the whipping horses of “crisis”, “deflation” and “stimulus” to the largest takeover of the free economy in the nation’s history."

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom - Times Online

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom - Times Online:

"Stuff happens. The world is random, intrinsically unknowable. “You will never,” he says, “be able to control randomness.”

To explain: black swans were discovered in Australia. Before that, any reasonable person could assume the all-swans-are-white theory was unassailable. But the sight of just one black swan detonated that theory. Every theory we have about the human world and about the future is vulnerable to the black swan, the unexpected event. We sail in fragile vessels across a raging sea of uncertainty. “The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.”"

Exceed RC F-4E Phantom 4-Channel RC Jet w/ Brushless & LiPo Setup 64mm EDF RTF Radio Controlled Jet - POWERFUL & FAST / 70 MPH

Exceed RC F-4E Phantom 4-Channel RC Jet w/ Brushless & LiPo Setup 64mm EDF RTF Radio Controlled Jet - POWERFUL & FAST / 70 MPH: "The F-4E Phantom EDF RC Jet is the latest creation from Exceed RC and there IS a difference as to who designs these, this F4-E jet just has the magic touch, and it shows in the scale accuracy of the overall plane, and also in a lot of thoughtful little details and engineering that really make it stand out from the competition.
It's beautiful! Small, and very high performance..."

YouTube - Sugar Loaf -- Bossa Nova guitar lesson

YouTube - Sugar Loaf -- Bossa Nova guitar lesson: "Best fomat I have seen while searching for leasons to learn bossa nova. Thanks for posting."

YouTube - Principles of economics, translated

YouTube - Principles of economics, translated: "'Mankiw's 10 principles of economics, translated for the uninitiated', by Yoram Bauman, http://www.standupeconomist.com . Presented at the AAAS humor session, February 16, 2007."

Greg Mankiw's Blog: How do the right and left differ?

Greg Mankiw's Blog: How do the right and left differ?: "The conclusion of today's ec 10 lecture:

In today's lecture, I have discussed a number of reasons that right-leaning and left-leaning economists differ in their policy views, even though they share an intellectual framework for analysis. Here is a summary."

What are the best programming articles? - Stack Overflow

What are the best programming articles? - Stack Overflow: "Part of being a good software developer is keeping current with what people are saying in the community. There are many good articles out there on the internet about the wide subject of computer programming. What articles have you found worth your time?"

CodeGuru: Un-Dynamics of Software Development, or, Don't Bite the Flip Bozo

CodeGuru: Un-Dynamics of Software Development, or, Don't Bite the Flip Bozo:
"# Don't say anything.
# Begin your statements with yeah, no a lot so that it sounds like you are being agreeable even when you disagree.
# Deliver the no at the end of the sentence. This is a technique that Jerry Hirschberg says the Japanese practice to great effect.
# Act like you are thinking about someone's bad idea before telling him or her it is crap. The crappier the idea, the longer you should wait before responding; hopefully, they will discover the inferior quality of the idea before you have to say anything.
# If you need a friend, get a dog."

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death

A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death: "Everything old is new again, and though the rise of 3D games has made sprite maps obsolete, the concurrent rise of mobile devices with 2D gaming capabilities have brought them back into vogue. And now, with a bit of math and a lot of CSS, we’re going to take the basic concept and apply it to the world of web design."

Library of Free Data Models from DatabaseAnswers.org

Library of Free Data Models from DatabaseAnswers.org: "Here are more than 500 very useful 'Kick-Start' Data Models that I have created since I started 5 years ago."

Top 10 Ways You Know You Live With An Animator � Jacquie Gouveia

Top 10 Ways You Know You Live With An Animator � Jacquie Gouveia: "4. They strongly believe (and you must agree) Wall-E should be nominated and win an Oscar for Best Film. In fact, the academy shouldn’t even waste there time nominating any other films, why bother?"

How to use Japanese style toilet

How to use Japanese style toilet

inter-Face: Dominique

inter-Face: Dominique
creepy!

Typing Errors: The standard typewriter keyboard is Exhibit A in the hottest new case against markets. But the evidence has been cooked. - Reason Magazine

Typing Errors: The standard typewriter keyboard is Exhibit A in the hottest new case against markets. But the evidence has been cooked. - Reason Magazine: "These fictions may ordinarily be little more than curiosities or mere affronts to our concern for the truth. But our concern here is with one such story that is put forward as part of a case against the effectiveness of free markets and individual choice. This story has consequences."

Simple Homemade Sauerkraut Recipe

Simple Homemade Sauerkraut Recipe:

"2 large heads of cabbage (about 5 pounds)
2 to 3 tbsp noniodized salt

Grate 1 cabbage and place in a crock or plastic bucket. Sprinkle half the salt over the cabbage. Grate the second cabbage, then add it to the crock along with the rest of the salt. Crush the mixture with your hands until liquid comes out of the cabbage freely. Place a plate on top of the cabbage, then a weight on top of the plate. Cover the container and check after 2 days. Scoop the scum off the top, repack and check every 3 days. After 2 weeks, sample the kraut to see if it tastes ready to eat. The flavor will continue to mature for the next several weeks. Canning or refrigerating the sauerkraut will extend its shelf life. Yields about 2 quarts."

Omnivoracious: Ranking the Classics: Weeks Four and Five of the 60 in 60

Omnivoracious: Ranking the Classics: Weeks Four and Five of the 60 in 60: "Those Amazon readers who have followed my prior posts on the subject know that I've started in on what has been called by at least one friend 'foolish' and by another 'the endeavor of a madman': reading the 60 books in Penguin's Great Ideas series, one a day, and writing about each on my personal blog. Penguin's own blog questioned my sanity. Yet, I have persevered to the end of the fifth week, and my 60 in 60 audacity has been rewarded by attention from, among others, the Guardian (as book site of the week) and the Harvard University Press, which urged its readers to emulate my craziness. Still, I have made one change for my own peace of mind: between each set of 20, I get three days off to recuperate."

マンホールの蓋 | Ittemia前線

マンホールの蓋 | Ittemia前線
Japanese manhole cover mashup.

'American Dunkirk' - TCS Daily

'American Dunkirk' - TCS Daily: "In fact, one barely-reported story from September 11 illustrates this better than any other - the improvised navy that evacuated roughly a million people by boat from Lower Manhattan, in an operation that some have called an American Dunkirk. Ferries, commercial boats, and pleasure craft spontaneously assembled to carry people away from the scene of the attack, and to return with needed supplies:"

How Many Passengers Can Cram Into a Rickety Bread Loaf? - New York Times

How Many Passengers Can Cram Into a Rickety Bread Loaf? - New York Times: "An odd-looking contraption, shaped like a loaf of Wonder Bread, unexplained indentations and all, Mr. Shao's van appears ready to leave the living at any moment. It's just 4 years old, he says, though it looks 40.

In Beijing slang, these vehicles are called ''bread-loaf taxis.''"

History of the Beijing Cab at China Car Times

History of the Beijing Cab at China Car Times: "The Mian Di was one of the first mass available taxis, these were first used from 1984 onwards. These were painted a tasteful yellow color (The Chinese referred to them as ‘Yellow Bugs’) and could easily seat 8 people in their restricted areas. From ‘84 to ‘98, these ‘massive on the inside, small on the outside‘ vans were cruising the streets of the capital, for 10rmb you could go 10km, not a bad price. Drivers loved the Mian Di as it could carry plenty, either people or cargo, it was highly effecient thanks to its tiny engines which were usually 800cc to 1.3l at the most."

Concurring Opinions

Concurring Opinions:
"A Guide to Grading Exams
posted by Daniel J. Solove

It's that time of year again. Students have taken their finals, and now it is time to grade them. It is something professors have been looking forward to all semester. Exactness in grading is a well-honed skill, taking considerable expertise and years of practice to master. The purpose of this post is to serve as a guide to young professors about how to perfect their grading skills and as a way for students to learn the mysterious science of how their grades are determined.

Grading begins with the stack of exams, shown in Figure 1 below."

Boston.com - Ideas - Globe

Boston.com - Ideas - Globe: "Hack your brain
How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio"

Op-Ed Contributor - Wedgwood Is Going Bankrupt Because It Forgot the Lessons of Its Founder - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor - Wedgwood Is Going Bankrupt Because It Forgot the Lessons of Its Founder - NYTimes.com: "Josiah was an unlikely hero. He was the 13th child of an impoverished potter; a childhood case of smallpox left Josiah with a bad leg that was later amputated, making it impossible for him to turn a potter’s wheel. But if he could not physically throw a pot, he could — and did — find new ways to get goods to market. He threw himself into various schemes to improve roads and canals. And, more fundamentally, he developed new ways of selling. Most, if not all, of the common techniques in 20th-century sales — direct mail, money-back guarantees, traveling salesmen, self-service, free delivery, buy one get one free, illustrated catalogues — came from Josiah Wedgwood."

Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes

Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes:
"Behold, BACON EXPLOSION!!! Here’s what you’ll need…
2 pounds thick cut bacon
2 pounds Italian sausage
1 jar of your favorite barbeque sauce
1 jar of your favorite barbeque rub"

tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift miniatures

tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift miniatures: "Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.

Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com."

AMC � The Prisoner 1960s Video Player

AMC � The Prisoner 1960s Video Player

Mind - Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early - NYTimes.com

Mind - Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early - NYTimes.com: "Psychologists have studied this sort of behavior since at least 1978, when Steven Berglas and Edward E. Jones used the phrase “self-handicapping” to describe students in a study who chose to take a drug that they were told would inhibit their performance on an exam (the drug was actually inert).

The urge goes well beyond a mere lowering of expectations, and it has more to do with protecting self-image than with psychological conflicts rooted in early development, in the Freudian sense. Recent research has helped clarify not just who is prone to self-handicapping but also its consequences — and its possible benefits."

Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Bach, Johann Sebastian) - IMSLP

Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Bach, Johann Sebastian) - IMSLP: "Complete score plus appendixes"

Feature Column from the AMS

Feature Column from the AMS: "Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering contains ten canons. In each of these canons a musical line is played twice (or four times in Canon 10). The second version is always transformed with respect to the first by shifting in time, but it may also be shifted in pitch, turned upside-down, stretched, or played backwards. Each of these transformations occurs in the mathematics of elementary functions; they are examples of how new functions can be made out of old and of how a function can be tailored to fit a new situation. We will look at some simple transformations and see how they are exemplified in the first five of the Musical Offering canons."

larips.com

larips.com :
"I believe that Johann Sebastian Bach notated a specific method of keyboard tuning. He did not express it in our normally-expected formats of theory, or numbers. Rather, he drew a diagram for a practical hands-on sequence to adjust the tuning pins, working entirely by ear.

He also demanded and exhibited a system of this enharmonic flexibility through the music in Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, presenting his tuning challenge (and giving the solution!) where most of the preludes and fugues each require the smooth handling of more than 12 notes. For example, his D major prelude and fugue use all of Bb, F, C, G, D, A, E, B, F#, C#, G#, D#, A#, and E# in the same piece: 14 notes. Some of the other pieces require 13, 15, 17, or 25!"

Your idea sucks, now go do it�anyway - Blog - Startups Marketing Geekery

Your idea sucks, now go do it�anyway - Blog - Startups Marketing Geekery: "'My idea isn't good enough yet' explained a friend who is thinking of starting his own company. He was waiting for the idea to be completely fleshed our before taking the leap.

Here's a newsflash: Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different."

Asus Eee PC: How to Upgrade the Memory - Internet Business Blog

Asus Eee PC: How to Upgrade the Memory - Internet Business Blog: "I don’t know about a picture painting a thousand words, but I found this video showing the Eee PC memory upgrade process to be very useful and I see little point in writing a detailed post explaining how to do it, but I will add that I also removed the Eee’s battery before starting the memory upgrade and that you can confirm you’ve installed the memory correctly by the following"

bookoutlines / Predictably Irrational

bookoutlines / Predictably Irrational: "Predictably Irrational
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, book by Dan Ariely"

RLC: Don’t Use These Expressions In My Vicinity Or I Won’t Be Responsible

RLC: Don’t Use These Expressions In My Vicinity Or I Won’t Be Responsible: "5. Luminous or astonishing as descriptions of same. These two have been hobbyhorses of mine for twenty years -- which shows how lame the critics are who still use them. I was delighted to see Joe Queenan strike them down in the NYT a couple of months ago."

gist: 41337 — GitHub

gist: 41337 — GitHub: "lsv() - a variable listing utility for python"

Make Your Own Calvin Mask! | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow

Make Your Own Calvin Mask! | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow: "I didn’t realize until today that the Calvin cut-out mask was also available on the web so that everybody can make their own Unintentionally Terrifying Calvin mask to celebrate John Calvin’s upcoming 500th birthday (July 10, 2009)."

Southern Comfort: Why chili con carne is almost a religion in some parts of the world | Mail Online

Southern Comfort: Why chili con carne is almost a religion in some parts of the world | Mail Online: "There are as many theories as to the dish’s origins as there are variations of ingredients. The only certainty is that chilli con carne is not Mexican. Sure, there are lots of similar beef and chilli stews, birria for example – but this is a North American dish."

Washington Times - STAYING TOGETHER: Resist the urge to trash husbands

Washington Times - STAYING TOGETHER: Resist the urge to trash husbands: "I honestly don't think women spend much time thinking about how they treat their husbands.

Women don't seem to realize that the more you complain about your husband, the more fuel it adds to the fire. In other words, it doesn't make you want to go home and be more loving toward your husband"

What If New York Goes Bust? - The Daily Beast

What If New York Goes Bust? - The Daily Beast: "The Alice in Wonderland absurdity of the current budget debates was nicely illustrated by the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. She was quoted without irony in The New York Times saying, 'We understand there will be cuts. The real question, will there be cuts, not just cuts against growth, but real cuts that will turn back the clock.'"

A Reporter at Large: Atomic John: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

A Reporter at Large: Atomic John: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "In the decades since the Second World War, dozens of historians have attempted to divine the precise mechanics of the Hiroshima bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, and of the bomb that fell three days later on Nagasaki, known as Fat Man. The most prominent is Richard Rhodes, who won a Pulitzer Prize, in 1988, for his dazzling and meticulous book “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” But the most accurate account of the bomb’s inner workings—an unnervingly detailed reconstruction, based on old photographs and documents—has been written by a sixty-one-year-old truck driver from Waukesha, Wisconsin, named John Coster-Mullen, who was once a commercial photographer, and has never received a college degree."

XHeli.com

XHeli.com - #1 Lowest Prices for RC Helicopters: "Welcome to XHeli.com, the internet's #1 online shop specializing in all kinds of radio controlled helicopters for both beginners and experienced hobbyists with the best price and best possible service online. We carry the most plug-n-play ready-to-fly (RTF) radio controlled RC helicopters in the United States."

The Quivering Upper Lip by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2008

The Quivering Upper Lip by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2008: "What, exactly, were the qualities that my mother had so admired? Above all, there was the people’s manner. The British seemed to her self-contained, self-controlled, law-abiding yet tolerant of others no matter how eccentric, and with a deeply ironic view of life that encouraged them to laugh at themselves and to appreciate their own unimportance in the scheme of things. If Horace Walpole was right—that the world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel—the English were the most thoughtful people in the world. They were polite and considerate, not pushy or boastful; the self-confident took care not to humiliate the shy or timid; and even the most accomplished was aware that his achievements were a drop in the ocean of possibility, and might have been much greater if he had tried harder or been more talented."

Recipe - Egg Nog

Recipe - Eggnog
* 4 (6) eggs
* 1/3 cup (1 cup) plus 1 tsp (1 Tbsp) sugar
* 1 tsp vanilla
* 1 tsp ground nutmeg
* 3 oz bourbon or brandy (3/4 cup brandy + 1/3 cup dark rum)
* 1 cup (2 cups) whipping cream
* 2 cups milk

Separate eggs. Beat yolks 2-3 min until light. Add sugar and beat until creamy. Stir in everything but egg whites. Beat egg whites to soft peaks, add sugar, beat to stiff peaks. Stir in egg whites. Bourbon can be reserved. For bodacious rich eggnog, use measures in parentheses.